I think you are overreaching. Rope didn’t write this for you, or for atheists, but for a specific readership where the Problem of Evil is a recurring question. You seem so determined that Rope must be wrong that you are ignoring his intended purpose. Granted that purpose may have no meaning to atheists, but that’s hardly a problem Rope needs to solve.
We’ve had some really good discussion on this topic, and I think we should credit that to Rope for posting an interesting idea, whether or not we agree with all of his reasoning.